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FLATIRON Filed March 21, 1930 INVENTOR.

EY m. FIBBENS w w ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 1, 1931 UNITED STATES SIDNEY M. ABBENS, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ZASSIGNOR OF ONE-TENTH TO PAT-ENT- OFFICE DOROTHY KAGAN, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA I FLATIRON Application filed. March 21, 1930. Serial No. 437,894.

This invention relates to improvements in irons and has for its principal object the provision of an attachment for an iron that will readily support the iron at a point above an ironing surface, to thus prevent the burning of said surface, when the iron is not in use.

A further object of the invention is to provide a stand attached to an iron, so that. it may be made as a part thereof or may be a separate attachment that can be readily secured to the conventional iron.

An additional'object of the invention is to produce a device of the character described, that is simple in construction, economical to manufacture, positive in operation, durable, and a device which is both efiicient in use and simple to manipulate.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent during the course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification and in which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the same,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of an iron having my device secured thereto, and,

Figure 2 is a cross sectional View taken on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

In the ironing of clothes with a hand iron, when it is necessary to change the position of the clothes, it is customary to rest the hand iron upon a suitable support to one side of the work. This operation entails considerable effeort upon the part of the user in lifting the iron to one side, and back again. I have accordingly produced a support that is attached to an iron so that the iron, upon actuation of the attachment, will be elevated above the ironing surface.

In the accompanying drawings wherein for the purpose of illustration is shown a preferred embodiment of my invention, the numeral 5 designates a standard form of iron, either of the self heating type, that is commonly known as an electric iron, or may be that type of iron that is placed upon a hot surface to be heated. The iron is provided with a customary handle 6, secured thereto by the supports 7 and 8. The structure thus far described refers to an ordinary iron, and forms no part of my invention.

My attachment consists of a support adapted to straddle the iron as best illustrated in Figure 2. The downward extending pieces 8 and 9 are connected by a bridge portion 11 at the end of which are ears shown at 12 and 13. A crank 14 has its offset ends 16 and 17 rotatably mounted in the supports 7 and 8 respectively. A spring clip 18 is mounted upon the support 7, and has diverging end portions provided with recesses 19, adapted to be engaged by the heel 21 of the crank '14. When the crank is in its full line position of Figure 1, or in the dotted line position of this figure, a crank arm 22 extends to one side as shown in Figure 2, and through the manipulation of this crank arm the crank may be moved about its pivots.

The result of this construction is that when the parts are in full line position of Figure 1,-

crank is in the dotted line posit-ion of Figure l 1, the support will be moved to the dotted ing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the subjoined claim.

Having thus described my invention, I claim In combination with a sad-iron, of a support having ears formed thereon a d t ing'upwardly therefrom, said support straddling the body of the ironfmeans 01 raising and lowering the iron relative to the support, said means including a crank extending 5 longitudinally of the iron body and extending thru said ears and having its ends rotat ably connected to said iron, a recessed spring clip mounted upon said iron and adapted to engage said crank whereby said support may 10 be heldaeither elevated or depressed; and a crank arm for manually moving said'crank into engagement With said spring clip;

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature SIDNEY M. ABBENS. 

